Worlds Research Papers - GradualDIME

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GradualDime & V-Arch

Present:
VR or Bust : The Worlds
Research Papers
Thank you to the following contributors for the collection of information, and just being great friends and explorers
with the group:
• Kenji
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• monoPool (monoAP)
• Lossy
• Nexialist
Foreword
group and a small cult following now. This
growth is all thanks to these other dedicated
users, and YOU. If you are reading this, that
The Worlds.com expedition was, to be means you took the time to download it and
honest, almost a complete fluke. I have a genuine interest in Worlds, so thank you
(GradualDIME) posted a thread about it on/v/ for supporting the exploration.
to show my initial exploration, and it took off.
Keep in mind that Worlds exploration has been Without further ado, V-Arch presents
around for quite some time now, and I am not our complete report on Worlds.com, it’s
the first to do such a thing. But it appears that players, it’s private worlds, and it’s disturbing
this is the first seriously documented nostalgia that seems to fill the very digital air
exploration of it, and I can’t take complete we walk through.
credit at all for this. Thanks to various users
(most notably, Kenji) we have an active Steam

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Preface – and it proves even more disturbing than

we previously thought.
It all began with a late night post on

4chan’s /v/. Well, at least, this chapter of
Worlds exploration did.
If you have ever even had the

slightest interest in Worlds.com and its
secrets, then this report is for you. Join us,
V-Arch, as we show you the truth behind
Worlds.com has been the target of a
the abandoned 3D chat environment, and
few interested /x/ and /v/ users since April
what to expect when you play it yourself.
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of 2011, but this expedition has proven to

be the most prolific of the two, seeing as we
have 100+ interested members (and
growing!) to aid in this project now. There
has been much speculation of Worlds Chat,
but finally V-Arch has constructed the first
full report on the subject, which you are
reading right now.
Many observers of our expeditions

have doubted claims made by many users,
including the validity of users like
“Nexialist” or “monoPool”, but in this
release, we show you what they showed us

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How It Works
Worlds Chat client is simple in some
ways, and complicated in others. Getting After the player has reached Ground
started was easy – a quick trip to Zero, the exploration begins. Truth is,
Worlds.com led us to the download exploration is best done when the user is in
(included) and after a few quick setup steps, control of his/her path. The method we
we were good to go. Account creation is used was:
also easy, requiring minimum personal 1. Branch out to default worlds
details. from GZ (Ground Zero)
The chat client, after installed and
properly logged in (you must run as
administrator), loads you into a place called
Ground Zero. Ground Zero is the default
load out area and houses most of the 2. Talk to regulars about private
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players that are still active on the server

(which, as of 1/30/12, is generally lower
than 10 at any given time). Ground Zero is a That’s about all you can do.
complex subject, and more info can be Fortunately for readers of this
found below. packet, a list of all notable World
locations have been enclosed.
Pictured: Default Ground Zero

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Ground
Zero
Encompasses: Auditorium,
Avatar Gallery
As stated above,
Ground Zero (or commonly
referenced as GZ) is the
standard loud out area when
you start the worlds client.
Ground Zero has

many faces – and by that I
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mean this: A common

practice for users creating
custom worlds, is to simply
re-skin GZ. When you see a
private world link to “___ GZ”,
then you know that the world
is a reskinned Ground Zero.
There are benefits to

this: Most notably, is that
creators can change
whatever they like about the
GZ world, and it will still be
able to load all the active
players in their own
traditional GZs. For example,
one of the most prized worlds
we have bookmarked, AEE
Ground Zero, is an Easter
themed GZ that has a wall of
clickable links to private
world.

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Hang
Encompasses: Music Rooms
(separated by genre), Live
Event Hall (obviously
inactive)
Hang is a strange
world. It is generally the first
world that first time users
travel to after leaving GZ for
the first time. Hang was
constructed as – you guessed
it – a hangout spot for
Worlds users, specifically
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users that wanted to talk

music. But something far
eerier was left behind.
Like most areas of

Worlds, it is hard to explain
how completely devoid of life
Hang really is. When you
walk into the once crowded
spaces and hallways that are
Hang, you walk into a space
that some used to call their
hobby – some, their after
work hangout – others,
home.
This is a reoccurring
theme amongst most of the
worlds; Worlds Chat client is
a virtual ruin – when you
step into Worlds, you step
into a beautiful, nostalgia
ridden, graveyard.

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Club
Encompasses: Club
The Club is simple,

really – the default dancing
area when Worlds was
active.
There isn’t much to

say about The Club, except
that it is one of the most
normal places in the entire
client. When you are a VIP
(you get free two weeks of
VIP when you sign up for
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Worlds) you can choose to

have a 3D avatar. When you
have a 3D avatar, you can
make your character dance
and perform other physical
actions through a control
panel. Obviously, The Club is
where this was utilized the
most.
At least… it was.

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Meteor
Encompasses: Meteor, Portal
to Avatar Gallery and GZ
The Meteor is
nondescript. It’s a plain
meteor skinned hangout area
hanging out in space. You
can also click on the Space
Pod to travel to Worlds
Center as well.
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Worlds
Center
Encompasses: Hallways of
square chatting rooms
separated by topic, Portals to
themed places (i.e. Asteroid
52 – blues bar, a place to
discuss sadness)
One of the more

perplexing default areas, to
be honest; Worlds Center was
created as a catch all area
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for Worlds users, supplying

them with a space to discuss
just about anything. It has
some extremely strange and
oddball areas though – at
least, seemingly so, given the
lack of life filling them.
For example, in the

aforementioned Asteroid-52
blues bar, we are loaded into
a file called “sadness.world”
on the worlds.com server.
This world is a small disco
floored space where users
met and discussed their
depressing issues. In this
world, there is also a small
network of rooms, each with
a dedicated cathartic
purpose – i.e. Sadness, Tears,
Bitterness, etc.

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Animal
House
Encompasses: The House
(Living Room, Basement,
Upstairs, Avatar Gallery,
Cave)
The Animal House is

another anomaly of the
default worlds. It’s a trashed
suburban home, with an
outhouse in the front yard
that leads to Hell.
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Animal House is full of

odds and ends. Mostly
though, it’s pretty normal.
One of the Nexialist worlds
actually links to a type of, for
lack of a better word,
“purgatory” world where you
can see every single angle of
the Animal House at one
time, and step through any of
the many portals to any
angle of the house.

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Erotic & JimblY

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Jimbly and Erotic worlds are worlds created by the chat-famous users Jimbly
and/or Erotic – two known regulars.
Worlds “Meteor” and “Texas” have been excluded

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Ground
Zero
Skins
Encompasses: Market Square
GZ, Bridge Park GZ, Aqua GZ,
Coaster GZ, Animal House GZ,
Lighthouse GZ, Hardrock GZ
Most regulars skip out on

the traditional Ground Zero loud
out – instead, they load into one of
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J&E’s Ground Zero’s instead. The

most used GZ skins are Market
Square and the new “Home” area
for J&E worlds: a beach front GZ
with no access except through the
bottom right nav square using the
“Home” button when in a J&E
world.

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Chateau
Encompasses: Mansion,
Private Beach, Club Room
The Chateau is
interesting. It has a private
beach (with green water, for
some reason), an entire
mansion on site, and, most
notably, a dance hall with a
trance anthem that will come
to define your audio
experience on Worlds.
The Club area is in the

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mansion, up the stairs to the

right, and straight ahead. It
is one of the first places I was
taken by monoPool, and it
will remain a personal
favorite for that reason.

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Casino
(Vegas)
Encompasses: Casino,
Wedding Chapel, Arcade,
Parking Deck, Psychic, Gift
Shop, Cafe
Once an active area

where users could come and
wager digital currency
against others on games of
Keno and Blackjack, The
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Casino now only exists as a

testament to the past; acting
as the center piece in a
digital recreation of Las
Vegas.
This particular e-city

has a uniquely eerie touch to
it. Low-bit skyline graphics
surround the streets, which
include a Wedding Chapel,
Arcade, and massive parking
deck. There was very little
exploration done on this
world in particular because
of our involvement with
other facets of the vast
Worlds universe.

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Gauntlet
(DL Sequence)
Encompasses: Every Default
world, Mass Downloader
The Gauntlet is
special because it’s sole
purpose is to make it easier
to download all of the default
worlds. You walk through to
each room, DL the next
world, restart, and keep
walking through. After about
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30 minutes, you should have

every default world
downloaded. If you
downloaded our release of it
than you’re lucky, because
we included all of them for
you!

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Rainbow
Encompasses: Church, Large
Building, Courtyard,
Underground Tunnel System
Rainbow is….well, you

honestly can’t summarize
rainbow. I could write a
fucking research paper on
Rainbow, and it still wouldn’t
come close to touching it’s
idiosyncratic existence.
Rainbow appears to
be an experimental world
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created by Jimbly. You spawn

in a courtyard that leads to a
church that has underground
tunnels to a larger building.
The basement of the other
building has a lounge room
with a headless drummer
kicking out some tunes. As if
that weren’t enough, if you
go upstairs in Rainbow’s
church building, it leads you
to a room in SPACE where
you look out a window and
see a starship. There is also
another room that has a pool
surrounded by Greek style
columns that is under the
stars.
It easily secures itself

as one of the most interesting
places in Worlds.

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Abydos
Encompasses: Temple,
Aquarium, Meditation
Rooms, Sanctuary
The meditation
retreat of Worlds, Abydos is a
quiet little place. Granted,
MOST worlds don’t have BG
music or SFX, but something
about Abydos brings it to a
new level of silence.
The temple has 4

rooms, listed above. The
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aquarium is a beautiful
weathered green stone room
with two windows into water
filled rooms with fish. Two
room are meditation room it
seems like. The other room is
like the meditation rooms –
except it has windows into
outer space.
Abydos is a great
refresher, especially after
seeing most of the other stuff
here in Worlds.

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Travel
Encompasses: All “public”
private worlds
Travel is the transit

station that bridges public
worlds with private ones.
Created by Jimbly, it provides
a much needed “door” for the
lesser known worlds, and
makes them easier to
organize and access.
Bilbo99’s worlds are listed
here, which you need to make
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note of as he is a key player

in private world contruction.
PLEASE NOTE: Travel

is ESSENTIAL to a proper
worlds experience, and links
you to many worlds that are
not covered here (mostly
because a lot are similar or
generic).

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Down The RabBit

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Flamingo
Hall/Maze
of Sadness
Location: Glee Pod (direct
opposite of Asteroid Lounge)
“Chills” room
The discovery of this room

was a complete accident – much
like this entire project – and to top
it off, it is in a default world.
In Worlds Center, through

the West Wing, there is a link to a
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portal area labeled Sadness / Glee.

In the “Glee” area, there is a door
to chat areas, and the chat area
labeled “Chills” has a mirror in it.
Except, it doesn’t. The

mirror isn’t real. When you walk
into it, it makes a shattering noise
as you pass through it, stops the BG
music, and takes you into a place
we call “Flamingo Hall”.
Flamingo Hall is a maze

adorned with dead-eyed flamingos
as the wallpaper. The end of the
maze holds a two dimensional
Minotaur that makes droning
moans whenever you walk into its
chambers.
The Minotaur’s room’s

door has the caption “Beware of…”,
and the inside is skinned with a
strange two-panel comic of sad
faces.
When you enter the room

of the Minotaur, the sound does not
stop playing unless you close out of
worlds, which requires a manually
shutdown at that point.
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Rooftop
Garden (Hand
Garden)
Location: Bowie World II
The Hand Garden

(labeled as “Rooftop Garden”
in the center of the Bowie
World nav panel) is one of
the essential sites to visit in
Worlds. It is one of the most
public and one of the most
known.
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Rooftop Garden is a
chilling testament to digital
abandonment. Like most of
Worlds, what makes this
place so eerie is the lack of
life. Travel here, and
wherever else you go, alone
or in pairs.
This space is a dirt

patch on top of a grey
building. The dirt patch is
littered with hands reaching
towards the stars. When you
click on one of these hands,
they glide gently from the
dirt and into space. Each
time you click a hand, a text
message appears in the chat
area.
Hand Garden is a
MUST for new comers.

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Aces &
eights
Location: Bowie World II
Aces and Eights is

hard to access unless it is by
a Worldsmark. A&E appeasr
to be hosted in Bowie World,
but the server it is on links
back to jedi.servequake.com.
It is quite the creative
dumping ground, and also
one of the first places I was
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taken by monoPool during

my first visit. Aces and Eights
is the location of the forum
famous room with the
turbulent sky, dragons, and
endless pathway. One of the
most commonly referenced
areas, it easily secures itself
as a must-see for new worlds
users.
One thing to know

about Aces and Eights
though…there is nothing
normal about it. Every facet
of A&E is disturbing in its
own way.

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[Aces and eights]

Cloud Tunnel
Location: Aces and Eights
The Cloud Tunnel,

again, is a popular
destination in Worlds, but it
is far from the strangest.
You enter a literal

cloud tunnel to begin with,
which leads you to a
symmetric double staircase
with a wooden structure in
between. A dragon adorns
the entrance. Once you
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proceed through the door at

the top of the stairs, you
enter a room that is mirrored
halfway in the center.
Note: those with

epilepsy should not enter this
room.

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Aces and eights]

GZ Spy
The Ground Zero spy

is exactly what it sounds like:
an undetectable room that
lets you see every angle of
Ground Zero whenever you’d
like. I’m not sure how regular
Worlds users feel about it (or
even care) but it does work,
and is quite a creepy
experience to visit.
Creepy thing is
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though…once you enter the

spy room, you can’t leave.
Unless of course you use a
Worldsmark.

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Aces and eights]

Heaven
(inaccessible)
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Aces and eights]

Soup’s Mirror
I’m not even going to

try to explain this one. If you
walk through that purple
blob in the last picture
though, it takes you to
“opium seas”.
If you have ever

wanted to try acid…
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Aces and eights]

Shadow Slaves
This world appears to

be created by a user named
“neo”, probably in the wake
of the release of The Matrix
(you’ve got to remember that
Worlds is ancient).
It certainly has
influences from it: normal at
first, but when you take a
closer look, you realize that
there is a deeper demented
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theme in this space

(complete with a
mirror/portal complex that
you can’t escape).

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Aces and eights]

Hub22
To access Hub22 is a
little tricky: You have to
enter the portal through the
TV room in A&E, then walk
back through the door you
spawn from. Then you can
access the hub.
Keep in mind though,

Hub22 uses a type of sliding
door that tends to cause
Worlds to freeze up and skip.
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You should be fine though as

long as you release the arrow
keys when it happens.

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OnionCell
Encompasses: Famous Tri-
Jesus exhibit, rotating dead
Jesus cross, Cloud Room
Onion Cell is fucked. I

say that lovingly. Onion Cell
is a small series of rooms
with disturbing 90s digital
representations of Jesus
being turned into different
art forms.
Some quick research

notes – Onion Cell was shown
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to me by Nexialist, although
it was first shown on /x/ by
early Worlds pioneers
months before.

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Never-Never
Land
Encompasses: Much
NNL is a sub-legend
involving early Worlds
exploration – at least, in
mine and V-Arch’s case. It is
the site of the notable
message: “The first thing
Peter did was to measure the
children for hollow trees”, a
message that Nexialist told
me “spread”. Then he logged
out. It is also the site of
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infamous “Joy Happiness

Fun” room hidden behind the
fireplace.
My first personal
Nexialist tour bore this land,
which I believe is accessible
from Travel.

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WTC Room
Encompasses: Hang Hip Hop
room (Shaper Accessible
Only)
A view from the “Hip

Hop” room in Hang – except
Nexialist used Worlds Shaper
to get past some barriers,
and it lets us roam the
texture room.
This room is known

for is simplistic beauty – one
of the few places on Worlds
that truly captures the
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essence of times past.
Seeing it here is one

thing – being there is a
completely different world.
…and they’re still

standing.

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Alien Mystery
Encompasses: The Best
Private World Available
Alien Mystery is one of

the most beautiful and complex
Private Worlds ever created.
Try to follow me here:

You start out at a mansion that
abuts a huge rock face. As you
walk in the door, fluorescent
apes crawl diagonally from the
ground and ascend into the sky.
Once you’re inside, you head to
far back right to a staircase
that leads to a basement. It
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turns out that the basement is

huge rock cave with a rainbow
alien picture acting a doorway
in the left corner. When we go
through this, we appear at the
base of the Starship Enterprise.
You ride the blue beam into the
ship, discovering that every
room is filled with randoms
dancing to oldies. Advancing
past this, you come to the
cockpit. The cockpit has a blue
circle, and when stepped on, it
sends the ship crashing into
earth. After you crash, you
appear in hell as a skeleton. If
you follow the path to your left,
you find an area with Pegasus
and ride him back to GZ. The
right path brings you to
skeletons dancing around a
black hole.

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Dungeon
Encompasses: Much
Another great Bilbo99

world. Dungeon is so large, it
could almost be considered to
have more than one world in it
(like Alien Mystery).
If you take a right at the

first Y in the path, it will lead
you to a teleport circle that lifts
you up to a sea of lava, with a
choice of 4 other teleport areas.
If you choose the correct one, it
propels you across the lava. The
others…you either ascend into
the sky, down into the lava pit,
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or back to the warning sign.

When you choose correctly, it
propels you to a grass walkway
near a tomb, which is
apparently a dead end.
However, if you take a

left and follow that path out,
you eventually come to a vast
courtyard with an aviary. This
courtyard has a few
entrance/exit points that lead
to a looping system of tunnels
that hold some gruesome sights.
The far right entrance leads to
a satanic shrine of bondage. The
exit at the opposite end leads to
a space room with wet roses.
You can’t summarize

Dungeon with a few pictures
and descriptions: check out
Bilbo99s worlds for yourself.

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Bilbo’s Animal
House
Encompasses: Automated
Underwater Zoo Ride (?)
This is not a re-skin of

Animal House, but an entirely
unique experience: Bilbo
created an automated
underwater ride that takes you
through his aqua zoo. All you
have to do is walk through the
Pegasus space portal and the
ride begins. Sit back, relax, and
watch 90s GIFs take you away.
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(Avro’s Wedding)
Atlantis
Encompasses: Dock, Crystal
Palace, Courtyard
Atlantis, or “Avro’s
Wedding Atlantis” appears to
be a crystal underwater
palace dedicated to be a
wedding reception area.
With beautiful digital

architecture, Atlantis is one
of the more eye pleasing
worlds, but what gives
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Atlantis it’s creepy vibes is it’s

background music and the
fact that it probably held a
digital wedding ages ago
where two people who met
on Worlds got eWed by an
electronic preacher,
complete with electronic
food, drinks, and people.

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Naughty Bitz
Location: N/A
Let me start by saying

that Naughty Bitz no longer
exists. Instead, a shitty retail
store has popped up in its
place on Market Square GZ.
Naughty Bitz was an

area where Worlds users
would host nudes of
themselves in. Surprisingly
enough, there were some
attractive people here at one
point. Unfortunately for our
readers, it was removed due
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to, in my opinion, harassment

of the user “macgaelic” who
had nudes posted there. She
has since changed her screen
name to something new,
which we will not disclose.
Here are the pieces

we salvaged before it went
down.

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Animal House
Control Room
Location: Copy of Animal
House, 3rd Party
Server(ittraining.net)
At first, the Animal

House access area seems
interesting – a place where
you can see EVERY angle of
Animal house from a secure
location.
Some investigation
causes it to lose some of its
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shine though. By checking it’s

Worldsmark, we see it is
hosted on ittraining.net,
indicating it is not the real
Animal House, but a copy of
it. In essence, you are spying
on a House that no one will
ever enter, unless it is
through the spy room itself.

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Potter Spy Room

Location: Potter World
In Harry Potter World

(will be discussed later),
there is a publically
accessible room that
provides a spy area, much
like the GZ spy, but to many
commonly used public
worlds.
Sadly, only VIPs may

go there, and my account
expired, so I don’t have
pictures. I thought about
making a new account, but I
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thought I would leave a little

mystery to this one. Go find it
yourselves. It’s easy once you
reach Potter World.

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Potter World
Encompasses: One of the
most complex worlds
Potter World is huge.

I mean HUGE huge. Probably
one of, if not the most
complex world in Travel.
Because of this, though, it
takes an ass long time to
load, which generally means
there is lots of colorful
unloaded texture squares.
Actually, come to
think of it, there are a lot of
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VIP only areas in Potter

World. Some shops, and the
spy room mentioned above.
It’s almost like it is a
marketing ploy that Worlds
invested in. Whatever it is, it
proves for an interesting
Worlds experience. Nothing
eerie, but a little nostalgic
none the less.

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Angel Eyes Sprit’s

Ground Zero
Encompasses: Important
private world link area
AES’s GZ plays one of

the most important roles in
modern Worlds research: Not
only is it, quoted by
monoPool, one of the “best
kept secret”, but it’s also a
place that links to worlds
that are only accessible from
here, and worlds that
Nexialist has taken me to –
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once thought to be only

accessible through his
guidance.
There are too many

links on this wall to analyze
and document in this release,
as it would take an entire
new exploration trip to do so
(which may in fact be a later
project), but what you should
know is this: You can’t access
AES’s GZ without an
invitation. By that, I mean
you can’t access it unless you
know someone with the
Worldsmark to get in. It
exists, but I am not going to
publish it’s Worldsmark. If
you want to access it, you
have to talk to someone who
already has it Marked. Only
spread this world through
personal contact.

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Tail Spinners
Encompasses: Link From AES
GZ, starship, multiple levels
Here is a preview of
some of the stuff you can find
in AES GZ (among other
things. There are mostly
normal places).
Tail Spinners it
possibly the most alpha place
you can be in Worlds – it’s an
8 level spaceship occupied by
half naked cheetah women.
You even spawn in a strip
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joint. By clicking the speaker

on the strip stage, you
activate some music too.
Anyway, the ship is

pretty cool; there’s lots of
features and rooms to
explore, and it’s just
generally a cool place. Plus,
there are half naked cheetah
women. What else do you
want?

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Britney Spears
World
Encompasses: Four Rooms,
Tibetan-esque hidden stone
pathway
Even though Britney

World is a default world, it is
too creepy to put anywhere
else.
First of all, you start

out in a pretty normal room
– hot pictures of Britt, Flashy
Lights, etc. What you don’t
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realize from the get go is that

there are 4 hidden passages
in this room. In every corner,
you can walk through the
holographic pictures and
into a chamber with a door.
There is one for Pepsi (opens
to a beach scene with Pepsi
cans on the ground), one for
AOL ( a stage with a
password protected room.
Password is obtained
through visiting a link), one
for Levi’s (a room with some
Levi’s banners and the NY
skyline), and finally, one
labeled “Brittany Spears”,
which leads you to a noir
Tibetan pathway that leads
into some mountains. This
path takes you to an
abandoned blue temple with
nothing inside.

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The Pit
Location: N/A
Because of Jimbly’s
recent deletion binge, The Pit
is inaccessible. This was Nex’s
final World he showed me,
but I can’t show pictures of it
because, honestly, I have
none.
But I do have the

Worldsmark.
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This is probably the

most demented of all. If it is
ever brought back online, you
have a way to access it here:
http://www.jimblyworlds.co
m/worlds/ahgz.world#ThePi
t@640.0,287.0,150.0,59.0,0.0,
0.0,-1.0

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Hooterville
Location: N/A
Hooterville, like many

other Worlds once hosted by
Jimbly, no longer exists.
It was a three story
complex revolving around
breast augmentation, with a
secret room labeled “mind of
a man”, which displayed
naked Worlds avatars.
It housed many other

hidden areas as well. For
example, in one floor’s
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bathrooms, you could enter

the stalls and walkthrough
their walls into demented
sub-worlds. One of these
areas housed a giant toilet
bowl full of heads. The others
slip my memory at the
moment, but it doesn’t
matter…odds are the rest of
you who are interested will
never get to see it. One day,
that will be true of this game.

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useRS
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nexialist
The odds that you will

never find or speak to
Nexialist are about as equal
to the odds of you finding and
speaking to him. It’s always a
half and half chance.
Nexialist rose to
urban legend status through
lore on 4chan, and quickly
became the “face” of worlds
for 4chan’s audience. He is
rumored by some to be a
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“keybearer” – a user with

admin like capability.
However, many worlds and
areas shown to me by him
suggest that maybe – just
maybe – he is just a seasoned
user with a large
Worldsmark collection.
Regardless of what
you think of Nexialist, he has
aided in this research
immensely, even if his
methods were unorthodox.
He is the Banksy of the
Worlds community: he will
speak to you person to
person, but as soon as you
start asking too many
questions, he’s off without a
word.

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nexialist
< do you know anything of Jimblys hosting switches?
< Hooterville is no longer accessible, along with many of his

(cont’d) worlds.
My final > There used to be an entrance to the gallery in the beach
whisper/conversation with world.
Nex (at least, since this paper
was released) about Jimbly’s > It's gone now. That suggests that Jimbly had been removing
recent world deletions and worlds and deleting evidence of their existence.
info about him is printed on
< You might be on to something. He's probably aware of the
this page.
documentation
< If he wasn't, he is now. I told him a little about.

< is me
< about it*
> Is Nexialist
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> He has been watching the threads on /x/ and /v/ since at least
last April.
< What should he be scared of?
> Nothing.
< Then what is his reasoning?
< He seems pretty consumed in this place
> Unless a bunch of hyperactive kids with short attention spans

posting screencaps for a few weeks is somethign he finds scary.
> Have you been saving the worlds you have been visiting?
< Of course.
> Good.
< Although, I am choosing not to release the worldsmark for

AngelEyesSpirit's GZ.
< In this PDF at least

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nexialist < I figure it's better if it's kept as word of mouth
< monoPool has stayed offline
< and I fear that Naughty Bitz removal was due to harrasment
by some people that followed from /x/
< We had one user, Uh was his tag, and he started some serious
shit.
< he made a blog and posted Jimbly's personal info on it. Im

talking address, age, you name it.
> Is that the Forgotten Worlds.com blog?
< And he harrassed macgaelic to the point where she had to

change names.
< yes
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< He removed the post though
< we told him to fuck off, and he hasn't talked to me since.
< or any of us
< Nex, I have to know the truth behind your urban legend.
< What lead mono and others to find you and regard you as a
"keybearer"?
< How long have you been here?
*Nexialist ceases to respond, and logs off*

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monoPoOl
monoPool was the

first person I met on Worlds.
He helped me get to know the
place, the people, and
himself. He, in a way, helped
catalyze the process and
piqued my interest from the
get go. He is a regular that
has been on Worlds for more
than 10 years.
He is also the one who

gave me the link to AES GZ,
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and introduced me to Aces

and Eights. He started this
process and, without him,
you wouldn’t be reading this
paper today. GradualDIME> hey
Unfortunately, I have monoPool> Hello

no other photos of mono
besides the one attached GradualDIME> How long have you been here? I am a first timer.
here, for he hasn’t got online monoPool> For a long time, I have to say
in a long time.
GradualDIME> This entire world facsinates me. To be honest though, It is a
This shot was taken little intimidating.
during my first worlds visit,
monoPool> That is normal, the depth it holds is fair greater than most
at the place where I met
imagine
mono – the Hang avatar
gallery. I have attached our GradualDIME> Do you mind if I ask you about it some more? Like...what
first chat log for archival keeps you coming back?
purposes. monoPool> It's what I enjoy, to put it simply
monoPool> I enjoy living here, it makes me feel good
monoPool> I cannot bear to be away from it

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monoPoOl monoPool> Is that really so strange?
GradualDIME> I understand, to an extent. I had a brief, similar attachment to

what I considered to be my digital home (Xbox live friends playing Halo 2). It
took me a long time to adjust to the loss.
monoPool> Ah, I see then.
GradualDIME> It isn't strange at all.
monoPool> Indeed. It doesn't seem to be so uncommon.
monoPool> I enjoy being here, and exploring the darkest depths of these
worlds.
GradualDIME> I took a trip into the music areas of "Hang". I thought the
doors would never end.
monoPool> Interesting indeed. Where else have you been?
GradualDIME> Ground Zero, touched around Hang, not much else. Is there a
particular place where the regulars still hangout?
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monoPool> Well, usually most of them stick to Ground Zero, since it's a
central hub, with a large amount of variations
monoPool> Each variation still holds the same people
monoPool> They usually travel deeper to speak privately
monoPool> Or to look for other people
GradualDIME> Is that what happened here? Did you randomly stumble upon
me?
monoPool> Indeed so, was simply wandering
GradualDIME> That is pretty cool, actually.
GradualDIME> What are all these people on the walls?
GradualDIME> Random people?
monoPool> These are avatars
monoPool> You can choose between lots of them

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monoPoOl *in response to “have you been since the beginning of Worlds?”*
------
Some of mono’s
monoPool> Oh, not nearly that long
personal info.
monoPool> That would be near 20 years
monoPool> I've been here for a long time, but not that much
GradualDIME> What was worlds like when you first joined?

How many users?
monoPool> It was... I'd say quite a lot more populated than it is

now
monoPool> Prehaps not in its prime, but still popular

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monoPool> The numbers dwindled constantly
monoPool> People began to forsake their worlds, leaving them

abandoned for others to find
GradualDIME> "Their" worlds?
GradualDIME> Can you author your own worlds?
monoPool> Indeed you can
monoPool> This is but a hub world
monoPool> A gateway to others
GradualDIME> I would guess that the others are even more

scarcely populated.
monoPool> The deeper you go, the more unlikely it is to find life

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monoPoOl *On being asked “Who is Nexialist, and why do I keep hearing
about him?”*
Mono speaks of monoPool> Ah, he's an interesting one

Nexialist.
monoPool> Knows a lot of ways around, to say the least
GradualDIME> Has he been here for a good while?
monoPool> Indeed, was fairly active too
monoPool> He has a unique way of doing things, to say the

least
monoPool> Has a bit of a reputation
GradualDIME> Did he contribute a lot to the Worlds

community? Or is he hated?
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monoPool> Neither, I suppose
monoPool> He manages to hold a very interesting aura of

mysteriousness around him
Desuh> who are you talking about
monoPool> For starters, his appearance is a skinned kangaroo

in a trenchcoat
GradualDIME> Jesus, where did he get that?
GradualDIME> Mod?
monoPool> If there's one person who manages to get a

reputation that transcends the game itself, it's him
GradualDIME> Is he known for anything outside of the Worlds

program?
monoPool> Not a moderator, but he holds something else
monoPool> Known outside? I wouldn't know, but he takes

newcomers for some interesting rides

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monoPoOl monoPool> He gave me quite a few things as well
monoPool> Including worlds that hold thousands of portals to

new worlds
GradualDIME> Would he add me as a friend? Is it possible for

me to explore it sometime?
Perhaps this
conversation can shed some monoPool> You would add him, if you want to look for him
light on how Nexialist is
perceived by regulars. monoPool> He has been missing though
GradualDIME> When was he last online? Anything reasonable?
monoPool> I haven't seen him in months
monoPool> If you're one for rumors though
monoPool> He is the "Keybearer", and his successor is being

awaited
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Others
Other users who I do
not have much info on:
Bilbo99 – pictured –
legendary creator of custom
worlds. Creator of Alien
Mystery, Dungeon, and
Bilbo’s Animal House.
Macgaelic (not active) –

former tag of a user who
posted nudes in Naughty
Bitz. Changed accounts due
to harassment from other
users.
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SirGemini – Regular, hosts

many of the Worlds events.
_Melissa_ - Regular, hosts

events as well.
Jimbly – Famous for his

prolific world creation and
hosting area. He hosts many
worlds and is popular among
remaining users.
Erotic – Jimbly’s wife, co-

creator of some worlds.

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Afterword

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Well, it seems that our little passion complete a missing link in the history of the
project has come to an end. What began as internet. Worlds helped pioneer 3D as a
an accident has evolved into a small project whole – do you realize how big that is?
that I have enjoyed immensely, as I know Unless we spend time to help small areas of
other have as well. Worlds exploration is an digital history like Worlds be properly
eye opening account for many reasons. A remembered, it will be a horribly broken
thought I had doing this research struck me future for internet history.
very hard: one day, in the not so far off
So I ask this much of you:
future, access to these corners of the
Spread the word. Tell others you know
internet will not be possible. As technology
about Worlds. Let them see it themselves,
grows, people move on, and Worlds is an
or read more about it. Explore some more
unfortunate victim of such a circumstance.
yourself. Just keep this place alive as long as
But it lives on – only through its final
you can, and document the things you do
generation of users, though. When they
there. Do this with ANY piece of old internet
leave, Worlds will cease to exist. With
history. Keep it alive and documented for
Jimbly hosting most of the visited worlds
future generations.
now, when he and the few others that keep
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the servers busy leave, it will fall victim to

time and be forgotten….
It has been an unforgettable
…unless we continue experience putting this document together,
completing projects like this one. The and I look forward to spending some more
reason we have spent so much time on this time aiding people on their own quests to
project, and the reason we formed V-Arch, experience Worlds. I hope you enjoy this
was to help preserve unique corners of the document as much as I have enjoyed
net before they are lost forever. Because creating it.
there will come a time when we wished we
could see these documents again, to
Until we speak again,
-GradualDIME

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ContAct
Email: gradualdime@hotmail.com
Steam Group:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/V-
arch
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Live Stream (pre recorded vids too):

http://www.livestream.com/worlds_stream

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nevEr fORgeT
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Worlds Shaper
(Making your own Worlds)
Worlds Shaper
This is how users

build their own worlds.
Granted, it’s complicated, but
there are tutorials on
Worlds.com to get you
started. Problem is,
Worlds.com doesn’t tell you
how to activate worlds
shaper. It’s really easy,
actually:
Open your
WORLDS.INI file in the root
directory, and below the first
bracketed text, add this line
to the code (without the
quotations):
“disableshaper=0”
Also, you can edit

existing worlds and worlds
you are in, but you are the
only one who will see the
effects. Doesn’t mean you
can’t use it to scare people
though…

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Preface – and it proves even more disturbing than

It all began with a late night post on

If you have ever even had the

of 2011, but this expedition has proven to

Many observers of our expeditions

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players that are still active on the server

Pictured: Default Ground Zero

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Ground Zero has

mean this: A common

There are benefits to

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users that wanted to talk

Like most areas of

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The Club is simple,

There isn’t much to

Worlds) you can choose to

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One of the more

for Worlds users, supplying

For example, in the

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The Animal House is

Animal House is full of

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Erotic & JimblY

Worlds “Meteor” and “Texas” have been excluded

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Most regulars skip out on

J&E’s Ground Zero’s instead. The

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The Club area is in the

mansion, up the stairs to the

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Once an active area

Casino now only exists as a

This particular e-city

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30 minutes, you should have

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Rainbow is….well, you

created by Jimbly. You spawn

It easily secures itself

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The temple has 4

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Travel is the transit

note of as he is a key player

PLEASE NOTE: Travel

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Down The RabBit

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